In 1790, twenty-seven of his get started, and were the winners of seventy-eight subscriptions, sweepstakes, matches, and plates. Bat won 100 guineas, 50 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket. A bay filly out of Camilla, 200 guineas, 143 guineas, and 200 guineas, at the same. Buzzard, 100 guineas, 50 guineas, 200 guineas, and 200 guineas, at Newmarket. Chanticleer, 300 guineas, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, and 152 guineas, at Newmarket. Cormorant, 50l. 100 guineas, 200 guineas, 400 guineas, 200 guineas, and 60 guineas, at Newmarket. Dragon, 200 guineas, 200 guineas, 200 guineas, 450 guineas, 100 guineas, 88 guineas, 45 guineas, 200 guineas, and 200 guineas, at the same. Griffin, 300 guineas, 120 guineas, and 125 guineas, at Newmarket. Isabel, 50l. 100 guineas, 300 guineas, and 150 guineas, at Newmarket. Mrs. Candour, 50 guineas, 50 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at the same. Pecker, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket. Seagull, 200 guineas, 500 guineas, and the Grosvenor Stakes, at Newmarket; the Oatlands Stakes, of 100 guineas each, nineteen subscribers, and 500 guineas, at Ascot Heath; 60 guineas, 250 guineas, 200 guineas, and 300 guineas, at Newmarket; and Tom Tit, 50l. at Stamford, 97l. 5s. 0d. at Nottingham, and 50l. at Derby.

In 1791, twenty-two of his produce started, and were winners of fifty-eight prizes. Buzzard won 250 guineas, 200 guineas, 120 guineas, and 300 guineas, at Newmarket, and two fifties at Chesterfield. Chanticleer, 150 guineas, 200 guineas, the Grosvenor Stakes, 100 guineas, and 200 guineas, at Newmarket. Cormorant, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 300 guineas, 100 guineas, and 80 guineas, at Newmarket. Dancing Master, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, and 130 guineas, at Newmarket. Dragon, the Claret and Fortescue Stakes, the Jockey Club Plate, the 140 guineas, 50l. 1000 guineas, the Prince's Plate, and 70 guineas, at Newmarket. Hawk, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, and 150 guineas, at Stockbridge. Isabel, the Queen's 100 guineas at Chelmsford, and the King's Plate at Lincoln. Pecker, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, and the Give and Take Plate, at Newmarket. Seagull, 600 guineas at Newmarket; and Tree Creeper, 200 guineas, 50 guineas, 60 guineas, and 50l. all at Newmarket. In 1792, Bustard won 200 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 50l. and 100 guineas, at Newmarket, and 200 guineas, 37½ guineas, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, and 50 guineas, at the same. Chanticleer, 100 guineas, 500 guineas, 500 guineas, 500 guineas, and 400 guineas, at Newmarket. Dragon, 275 guineas, the Whip (with 400 guineas,) and 300 guineas, at Newmarket. Hawk, 100 guineas at Newmarket, and the Bowl at Salisbury. Ostrich, 80 guineas at Newmarket, 50l. at Brighton, and the King's Plate at Canterbury. Rover, 50 guineas, and 90 guineas, at Exeter; and 50l. at Dorchester. Tree Creeper, 100 guineas, the second class and main of the Filly Stakes, and 200 guineas, at Newmarket; and the Prince's Stakes of 50 guineas each, half forfeit, seventeen subscribers, at Brighton.

In 1793, Buzzard won the Craven Stakes, 200 guineas, 200 guineas, 60 guineas, 100 guineas, and 60 guineas, at Newmarket; and a two year old bay filly of Lord Grosvenor's, the July Filly Stakes at Newmarket, and the Orleans Stakes at Brighton. In 1794, Buzzard won the Craven Stakes, 50 guineas, the Jockey Club Plate, 200 guineas, 50l. and 100 guineas, at Newmarket. Jack of Newbury, 50l. at Bath, 40 guineas at Tewksbury, and 60 guineas at Abingdon. Paroquet, 300 guineas at Newmarket; and Seagull, 50 guineas, 100 guineas, and 105 guineas, at the same. In 1795, Atropa (at two years old) won 400 guineas at Newmarket. Colibri, (two years old,) 50 guineas, and 75 guineas, at Brighton; 200 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 80 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket. Ida, 100 guineas at Ascot Heath, 50l. and 50 guineas at Brighton, and 50l. at Lewes. Shoveller, 150 guineas at Ascot; and Pecker, 500 guineas at Newmarket. In 1796, nine of his get started, and received nineteen prizes. In 1797, six were the winners of ten. In 1798, three only started, and were winners of five. In 1799, Vivalde, three years old, won 300 guineas, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket, and 100 guineas at Stamford; and Thrush, only two years old, 100 guineas, 50 guineas, and 45 guineas, at Newmarket. In 1800, Ephemera won the Oaks Stakes, of 50 guineas each, (twenty-four subscribers,) at Epsom, and 50l. at Newmarket. Sophia, 100 guineas at Brighton. Thrush, 100 guineas, and 20 guineas, at Newmarket. Vivalde, 200 guineas, and 45 guineas, at Newmarket; 50l. at Epsom; and 50l. at Reading. In 1801, Crazy Poetess won 100 guineas at Lewes. Cocoa-Tree, the Brocket Stakes of 100 guineas at Brocket Hall; 100 guineas, 75 guineas, and 50 guineas, at Newmarket; and Anna Maria, 60 guineas at Epsom. In 1802, Mystery won 60 guineas, and 50l. at Goodwood, and 50 guineas at Epsom; Paulo winning a 50l. plate at Northampton. So that, upon a review of Woodpecker's progeny, he has proved himself inferior to but very few of his predecessors.

WORMS

—are known to be of different kinds; and when any one particular species has taken possession of the stomach, or any part of the intestinal canal, in a horse, they not only occasion extreme pain, or perpetual disquietude, but become inveterate opponents to health, and constant enemies to flesh and condition. Some horses, of strong constitution, will bear their persecuting pinchings for a great length of time, before they give external proof of internal depredation; others, from less patience, or greater irritability, are very early in their indications. Symptoms of worms are various, and not unfrequently deceptive: those most relied upon are a largeness of the belly, with a leanness of the flesh; an unkind and hollow slaring of the coat, a flaccidity of the skin, a dryness of the mouth, a fœtidity of the breath, an occasional looking towards the flank on either side, or stamping with one hind foot or the other when in pain. A kind of straw-coloured sulphureous scurfy stain at the sphincter of the anus, is considered a certain and invariable sign; but ocular demonstration (which very frequently happens) removes the matter beyond all present doubt, and subsequent disappointment.

The sorts with which horses are most commonly afflicted, are as follow: Botts, a short circular worm, with a shelly kind of coat, picked at one end, and nearly round at the other, not unlike the silk-worm in its dormant state: these adhere closely to the internal coat of the stomach, causing the most excruciating pains as they increase in numbers, and are sometimes so numerous and destructive as to occasion the loss of life; instances of which have been proved by an examination of the viscera after death; of which a case is described in Page 132 of "A Compendium of Farriery," by the present Author, published in 1796. These take their seat also in the rectum, (the large intestine nearest the anus,) where they are seen adhering to the interstices as close to each other, during the moments of evacuation, as a swarm of bees; and five or six may be twitched off at a time with the fingers and thumb, just at the critical contraction of the sphincter.

There is also a large dark worm comes from horses, having a black head, and in its formation precisely the same as the grub-worm, so destructive to the roots of strawberries in certain dry seasons; but that these are of a cream coloured white, and the former of a brownish yellow, which tinge may probably be derived from the excrements in which they have been ingulfed. A third is the long white worm, from six or seven to fourteen inches long, equally picked at both ends, but larger in circumference towards one end than the other; these are prolific in the body beyond description, and when completely dislodged by medical specifics, are evacuated in putrified masses exceeding credibility. The fourth are a greenish small worm, with a perpetual vermicular motion, which, by its continual twisting and twirling in the intestinal canal, so irritates the animal, that he sometimes evacuates suddenly, and in a state so lax, that these worms are frequently expelled with the dung in great numbers, and seen working in all directions upon its surface, exactly similar to the exertions of an eel when thrown upon the grass from its native element.

Numerous are the quackeries and nostrums recommended by the il-literati, from old books, and unenlightened practice, long since buried in oblivion; but more particularly since the discovery of those grand specifics, MERCURY and ANTIMONY, which may be comparatively said to contain an equal degree of merit with the remaining conjunctive parts of the whole Materia Medica. After all the various experiments made, and minute observations collected, it does not appear that any mode, but mercurial purgation, will be productive of actual and infallible extirpation. Instances are numerous, where they have been evacuated in large quantities (and in many cases completely eradicated) by the advertised Antimonial Alterative Powders of the Author; but MERCURIALS are certainly entitled to priority, upon the well-founded plea of infallibity. Worms are as common with dogs as with horses, and may as certainly be cured by the same proportional means.

WORMING of DOGS

,—when whelps, or puppies, is believed by some to prevent their wanton and destructive propensity in play when young; and by others, to render unnecessary any fear of their receiving the canine infection of madness during their lives: the latter, however, is too slender a foundation for any decisive opinion to be erected upon. The operation of worming is simply this; underneath the tongue is a frænum (or bridle) by which the motion of the tongue is regulated; the exterior skin of this is to be delicately slit superficially with a lancet, when a tendinous substance, called the worm, will be perceived: the point of a small probe, awl, or large needle, should then be insinuated beneath its center, to raise it up, when, with very little force, one end will come away; this taken hold of, with a linen cloth, or handkerchief, the other end will soon come away under gentle extraction. Too sudden force, or violence, must not be used, lest the worm should be broken, and a part left behind in the attempt.